Brian Edited - Looking at the numbers

Let’s talk health outcomes:

To discuss how climate change has impacted the rate of certain negative health outcomes, let’s first assess their general prevalence.

Recent County-Level Trends

Clearly, according to the map below, lung cancer is a relevant issue in our three states of interest (NY, PA, and OH). They also provide a good range of examples, as we can see multiple counties with high age-adjusted incidence rates in Ohio, a few in New York, and virtually none in Pennsylvania.

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Recent State Level Trends

We can also check how these rates have changed by state over time:

# plotly of county level data

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